Ummm...let's see what else...Oh! How about Guitar Cakes? Why not.

[spudmunkey]

Post guitar cakes. Why the fuck not?

In celebration of the reunification of the man and his thought-stolen-but-really-just-misplaced guitar:

https://fb.watch/rmZFIdkNvF/

 

[jaxadam]

When the woman and I went to do some wedding cake testings, this beauty was at one of the places.

I was like if you can make that shit an Ibanez RG570 with EMGs you’ve got yourself a deal.

 

[BlackMastodon]

A friend of mine in high school made her bf a Warlock cake for his birthday. I don't have any pictures since it was like 16 years ago, but it was rad as hell. Probably played about as good as his actual Warlock.

 

[spudmunkey]

When the woman and I went to do some wedding cake testings, this beauty was at one of the places.

I was like if you can make that shit an Ibanez RG570 with EMGs you’ve got yourself a deal.

NGL, that's pretty damned impressive. I'm 100% positive someone involved in making that at the bakery plays guitar.

 

[jaxadam]

NGL, that's pretty damned impressive. I'm 100% positive someone involved in making that at the bakery plays guitar.

I think that’s who we ended up going with. I was like if they can nail a Les Paul, they can definitely nail a disappearing blue flower trilevel. They did not Pinterest fail us.

 

[Crungy]

A girlfriend I had ages ago made a bass birthday cake with a rice krispie neck. I think it had chocolate on it for a fretboard or maybe it had chocolate lines for frets. It was pretty close to actual bass in size but thicker. I ate most of it lol

 

[wheresthefbomb]

Probably played about as good as his actual Warlock.

sweet, creamy tone, airy with just the right amount of density.

 

[spudmunkey]

I guess I'll tap the keg on cake fails...but I'm going to make a exception to the "guitar cake fails" thing, and let those sort of "we pushed a bunch of cupcakes together, frosted them all in one lump, to vaguely resemble a guitar-like shape" kind of cakes slide. There's just no way that kind of thing could work for 99% of cake makers, so posting those would be lazy.


But whole cakes? Game on!

 

[spudmunkey]

Pretty impressive (except for the upside-down stickers, which I can't unsee now)



Admittedly unconventional, and the execution could use work, but the concept as a way to get impressive height for a show-stopper was pretty clever.

 

[crushingpetal]

I'm in for this thread. This shit is weird

 

[BlackMastodon]

impressive height for a show-stopper was pretty clever.

I see you, too, are a man of culture and watch Great British Bake Off.

 

[jco5055]

I see you, too, are a man of culture and watch Great British Bake Off.

not to derail the thread, but did you or anyone else watch the Nailed It Bake off? I'm looking for something to fill the void of Great British not being in season...

 

[BlackMastodon]

not to derail the thread, but did you or anyone else watch the Nailed It Bake off? I'm looking for something to fill the void of Great British not being in season...

I haven't, but I have watched the Great Canadian Bake Offan and it's fine. Season 2 was good, at least. I imagine Nailed It would be pretty entertaining.

 

[Crungy]

I guess I'll tap the keg on cake fails...but I'm going to make a exception to the "guitar cake fails" thing, and let those sort of "we pushed a bunch of cupcakes together, frosted them all in one lump, to vaguely resemble a guitar-like shape" kind of cakes slide. There's just no way that kind of thing could work for 99% of cake makers, so posting those would be lazy.


But whole cakes? Game on!

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Someone should make a cake for the person that decorated the "guitar" cake with this on it:

 

[Demiurge]

For my 30th, my wife ordered a guitar cake from a friend of a friend. This was quite some time ago but around the time when theme-cake shows started airing so she was all about that. It looked OK but it was mostly structural rice crispy material coated by way too many layers of fondant. Some of the stuff out there is impressive but I still wonder if the cake actually tastes good.

 

[Crungy]

For my 30th, my wife ordered a guitar cake from a friend of a friend. This was quite some time ago but around the time when theme-cake shows started airing so she was all about that. It looked OK but it was mostly structural rice crispy material coated by way too many layers of fondant. Some of the stuff out there is impressive but I still wonder if the cake actually tastes good.

I think cakes covered in fondant are the worst. My ex wife and some of her family members made cakes/cupcakes with fondant and it was never good.

I also tested this theory with fondant desserts not made by my ex wife.

Conclusion: They're still bad.

 

[BlackMastodon]

Fondant is garbage and tastes like garbage. Full stop.

 

[spudmunkey]

Fwiw, there are (at least) two kinds of fondant. The one most people think of is definitely trash. There's one that's newer that's better. Still not as good as some other traditional frosting, but good enough to give it a "pass" since it's not that bad and facilitates such different designs than you could ever do with smeared-on frosting/icing. I think the better one is marshmallow-based, so some people still won't like it because of that (though the texture isn't very marshmallow-like).

For baking shows, as silly as it is, Crimescene Kitchen is a bit if fun. Teams of bakers get a minute to survey a "used" kitchen with planted clues, and they have to guess the desert that was made there, then recreate it. Bakers are judged on the correctness and accuracy of their guess and finished bed good, and then the actual quality/taste of the finished item. Joel McHale hosts, Curtis Stone is one of the judges.

is it Cake? is dumb, simply because they give the real objects artificial cake-like accents like painted -on-wear to make them look more like cake from a distance, cheating the contestants. And that's ignoring the insufferable host and guest judges. But we watch it anyway. I dont know why.

 

[STRHelvete]

 

[spudmunkey]

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It took 19 posts. You guys let me down.